This happy swimmer might need a bigger pair of trunks. Rajan the Asian elephant loves nothing more than a dip in the sea. The retired working animal is the only elephant in the world to swim in the sea, and loves to take a dip off the Andaman...

Forget images of cramped campervans - Austrian company Marchi Mobile has come up with what could well be the most luxurious - and expensive - motorhome ever. The EleMMent Palazzo is a 40ft creation for the super-rich that Marchi Mobile says...

An average car tyre will travel around 20,000 miles over its lifetime, but when they have reached the end of their life in Kuwait... they are destined for the tyre graveyard. In Kuwait City's Sulaibiya area every year gigantic holes are dug out...

Dramatic video footage captures the moment a bear is sent flying into the air after being hit by a car - before walking away apparently unharmed.The footage, which was taken from inside the vehicle as it was driven along a highway, believed to be in Rus..

Four elephants have been killed after they became trapped on a railway line and were hit by a speeding train. The elephants were part of a herd crossing the railroad tracks in eastern India when the express passenger train ploughed into them.

A five-year-old schoolgirl has read 875 books in just one school year. Sophia Moss, from Lake Charles, Louisiana, reads a book nearly every day. She has finished reading most of the books in the kindergarten and first grade section of the T.S...

Seeing some of the world's most majestic creatures in their natural African habitat is always a momentous occasion. But, as these beautiful pictures show, watching them in their element during the twilight hours is all the more spectacular.

A LION and a miniature sausage dog have completely turned the idea of "fighting like cats and dogs" on its head. Bonedigger, a five-year old male lion, and Milo, a seven-year old Dacshund dog, are so close that Milo nonchalantly licks the massive lion's